ECL-Bm.8:72-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.8:72-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus :Calydonian boar hunt
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Bm 8. 72 and 73 are catalogued together being drawings of the same sarcophagus
Description
Content (description)
On left are the protagonists ready for the hunt. On far left a man turns to right to talk to a figure in the background. Then a bearded man, wearing a skin and carrying a double axe, moves right , a hound at his feet. A bearded male stands in the background. Atalanta, holding a spear, turns to right. A youth stands in the background. One of the Dioscuri holds the arm of Meleager in the centre as he levels his spear at the boar's head. Two hounds rush against the boar and Atalanta in the background reaches forward as if stringing her bow. Tree and reeds grow behind the boar's head. Two men aim spears from behind the boar: one of them seems to hold drapery which falls around the boar- this must in fact be part of a cave surround. A youth, holding rods in his left hand, aims a spear with his right, while a wounded huntsman sinks to the ground at his feet. Far right a man wearing a cloak moves right holding a wound on his thigh. In his left hand he holds a spear, which projects beyond the corner of the sarcophagus in the round.
Content (object)
drawing
Content (note)
Villa Pamfilia
Dimensions
height (actual size): 411mm
width (actual size): 556mm
width (actual size): 556mm
Inscription
Campiglia Villa Pamfilia Urna nell' Orangeria written in ink on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
1 A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right, truncated
S written in pencil on the back of the drawing
Written in the album in which the drawings are held is: No 72/No 73 1 A 2
S written in pencil on the back of the drawing
Written in the album in which the drawings are held is: No 72/No 73 1 A 2
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Rossi (III ; 244.2)
• RR (III ; 2 no. 231)
• ASR
• RR (III ; 2 no. 231)
• ASR
